Word: home
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Beyond the immediate problems caused by inflation and tight money, there are other, longer-term reasons for the trouble in housing. The home-building industry is like a sprawling Gulliver, pinned down by gremlins. The industry is snarled in a tangle of little, mostly local restraints that make houses and apartments cost more than they should. A modern Mr. Blandings who tries to build or buy his dream house often finds the experience turning into a bad trip. Among the difficulties that he faces...
...Francisco for a complete oceanside community. Beer-making Anheuser Busch recently bought 4,000 acres of Virginia countryside near Williamsburg and will develop an industrial town. Boise Cascade Corp. (1968 sales, $1 billion) has spread into almost every corner of the business: factory-built houses and mobile homes, on-site homes, apartments, leisure-home projects and urban renewal...
...trend to modules was started by Canada's Alcan Design Homes, which brought out a line of completely furnished aluminum-clad houses priced from $8,500 to $12,500, not including the lot and foundation. Indiana-based National Homes, one of the biggest manufacturers of prefabricated houses, opened its first modular plant last January. In a major industrial counterattack, National has also moved into mobile-home construction...
...This is the best ride I've had home in six years," an elderly commuter said to an ecstatic volunteer who had lollipop strips hung around his neck like ammunition belts...
...passenger told several girls that he would stage similar subway happenings in his home town of San Francisco. A graduate student in electrical engineering at M.I.T. continued on the train past his own stop, insisting that he be informed of the next event. Several phone numbers were received from other travelers...